Many of you may be thinking of deploying SharePoint farms on Windows Azure Virtual Machines… here are three hands-on-labs that will speed up your learning on this subject: 1. Active Directory Set up: https://github.com/WindowsAzure-TrainingKit/HOL-DeployingActiveDirectory/blob/master/HOL.md 2. SQL Server Set up: https://github.com/WindowsAzure-TrainingKit/HOL-DeployingSQLServerForSharePoint/blob/master/HOL.md 3. SharePoint Set up: https://github.com/WindowsAzure-TrainingKit/HOL-DeploySharePointVMs/blob/master/HOL.md -Hanu Technorati Tags: SharePoint on Azure,SharePoint on Azure…

Linux deployment on Windows Azure requires PEM or DER encoded x509 public key at the provisioning time to enable authenticated remote login through SSH. This post is complimentary to http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/how-to-guides/ssh-into-linux/ and encapsulates key generation into a simple shell script on both Linux and Windows. In this write up, we will generate a self-signed public/private kley…

Bill Laing, Corp VP, Server and Tools Business announced today about the availability of Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Windows Azure Virtual Network, Windows Azure Web Sites, and a whole lot of enhancements through his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/06/06/announcing-new-windows-azure-services-to-deliver-hybrid-cloud.aspx. To see the new Windows Azure features in action, tune into Meet Windows Azure Event tomorrow at 1pm PDT….

Introduction This post is inspired by Tomasz’s Hosting Node Applications on IIS write up that focused on the benefits of running Node.js on Windows server through iisnode. In this post, I wanted to focus on giving it a Windows Azure color and list the benefits of running Node.js on Microsoft cloud platform. Some of the…

Here are a list of products, in no particular order, which will help improve the quality of end user experience for Azure hosted applications. This list is an organic aggregation of tribal knowledge and is not a definitive one. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to send it to me through comments. Application…